Journal entries tagged "App Store"
The billionth download in the App Store
If you keep up with Apple-related news, you’re bound to know that Apple is approaching 1 billion downloads at the App Store, and will be giving 13.000 USD worth of gifts to whomever either downloads the billionth app, or sends a form right after the 999.999.999th app has been downloaded.
So, the question is: when will that be?
Turns out the counter can help us have a certain strategy.
Apple’s App Store a month after launch
For the uninitiated, Apple launched the iPhone 3G a month ago, and with it came a software update for all existing iPhones & iPod Touches (well, I’ve no idea how to write the plural for “iPod Touch”).
This software update was “the big one”, because Apple launched an application store (the “App Store”) accessible to all iDevices with that new OS update. As any self-respecting Apple fanatic, I promptly upgraded my iPod Touch. And boy, am I amazed at this thing.